Monopoly Capital Bears Its Ugly Fangs

[Onyango Oloo]

A Digital Essay by Onyango Oloo in Durban

In his recent blog piece that I just saw on Twitter,


Okoth Osewe, the Secretary General of the Stockholm-based Kenyan Red Alliance ponders why Western envoys are meddling in internal Kenyan politics. I support his views 167% especially when he reaches back historically to make the colonial connections which later on segued to the contemporary neo-colonial arrangements.

It is a well known fact that US Ambassador Godec has been acting like the most vicious hound in barking at Raila Odinga and NASA while underscoring Trump's racist agenda for Kenyan to accept the blatant electoral theft of the 2017 Presidential poll while keeping absolutely mum about the spate of state terror unleashed the blood thirsty Jubilee regime using robocops and dressed up Mungiki criminal thugs who unleashed a killing spree on children, women and unarmed civlians. It is now in the public domain that a senior official from the United States Embassy in Nairobi applied considerable pressure on the weak kneed, chicken hearted flip flopping three NASA stooges, namely Kalonzo Musyoka, Musalia Mudavadi and Moses Wetangula to skip thhe massively attended swearing in of Raila Odinga as People's President at Uhuru Park on January 30, 2018.

What is the agenda driving these envoys?

In the first place, let us cut out the diplomatic claptrap of baptizing them as "development partners" and the "international community". These beige men and women are invariably White people from North America and Europe. You don't see any dreadlocked Jamaicans, turbaned Sikhs or Kenze clothed or Agbada dorned men and women for them to qualify for the appellation of "international community", yet we know there are a gazillion of African, Caribbean, Latin American and Asian diplomatic missions in Nairobi.

No, these are the leading representatives of monoploy capital making sure that they maintain the imperialist strangehold on Kenya which they lust after our oil and natural resources and still consider our country a tea estate and coffee plantation. They are worried sick about the growing economic clout of China and would want to maintain Kenya as a sub-imperialist hub for NATO,AFRICOM, EU for their global power political games.

Unfortunately for them they have just discovered that Agwambo posses some makande ya chuma, unlike that perpetually drunk loser Uhuru Kenyatta.

I swear that if I wasn't so far away from home here in South Africa, I would be on the front lines of the February 16th demonstration at Gigiri demanding the ouster of Godec from Kenya.

Well, I am done as far as this particular piece is concerned.

[jakaswanga]

WITH FRIENDS LIKE ROBERT GODEC, IT IS THE WORLD UPSIDE DOWN

On the 30th of October 2017, Xi Jinping stated:

“As a beneficiary of and contributor to economic globalisation, China’s development is the opportunity for the world. China’s opening up is not a zero-sum game but win-win cooperation”.

US President Donald Trump:

“We also face rival powers, Russia and China, that seek to challenge American influence, values, and wealth. We will attempt to build a great partnership with those and other countries, but in a manner that always protects our national interest” .

And so Trump sought co-operation with India to derail The China-Pakistan Economic Corridor, a vital aspect of the One Belt One Road Initiative. This Central Asian bit needs a peace-treaty in Afghanistan. Washington duly revved up the war in Afghanistan to scatter any chances of massive construction works.

Kenya, make up your mind or have it be made up for you.

Soon as the Bechtel double-carriage is built to complement compete the SGR, we could wake up one morning to find Al-Shabaab managed to blow up the SGR, leaving the Bechtel road as the only cargo, human and all economic ware-way to the interior of Africa from Mombasa!

These options are being discussed openly by AFRICOM strategists, even if the two pretender presidents of Kenya today, Odinga and Kenyatta, and whoever the hopefuls of tomorrow be, Ruto, Joho, Kenneth and Gideon Moi, do not seem to have the mental age to engage in the great global game.

But Robert Godec is hard at work. A soldier of empire.

What do cerebral Americans think of their own current president?



Robert Godec's SD boss, Oilman Rex Tillerson, thinks Trump is a fuking moron. You can read that verbatim in the Guardian's review of Michael Wolff's FIRE AND FURY, a fly on the wall's account of the Trump White House. And that is one of the mild views. And so the military men have hijacked his presidency to set matters right. Mad Dog, Mac Master, John Kelly, and the rest of the brass core. They will take the battle to Russia and China, Iran and North Korea, Venezuela and Turkey, or anybody else who dare stand in their way. You remember the Rambo cache: no law will stand on their way, etc etc.

NAIROBI KENYA

We know what the US ambassador Robert Godec thinks of the Nairobi politicians and our head of state –---they are his shamba boys he can go upon like the ancient Bible advises real men to do upon their domestic slaves, wives or otherwise. But what do we know of what Robert Godec thinks of his own President, Donald Trump, or of his retro global dominance warrior court!?

We don't know!

But we can easily deduce to a bull's eye certainty. Obama appointees (like Godec and certainly all Europeans) like to think of themselves as more cerebral than the Trumpian, openly redneck troglodytes descended upon Washington DC. It is safe to think in the privacy of his heart, Godec seethes with contempt and scorn for his own President, unless he is a believer in white supremacy. In that case he would cherish the White Backlash which is the barbarian capture of the White House after the Obama stain!

American foreign policy since Barrack Obama's Asia Pivot which defined China as a strategic and intrinsically hostile competitor power which need must be contained to assure the US's global dominance, is an open book. Just as it was during the cold war in which the Soviet Union was the evil empire and a dangerous ideological competitor. In that age we had the likes of Zigbniew Bzerzinski and Henry Kissinger to spell out for us the ruthless skulduggery emanating from Washington. –-It was the enemy of my enemy is my friend!

Today, Africa is a battle field no less that it was in the age of the scramble which culminated in the Berlin conference in 1875. That infamous conference created a semblance of order in the free-for-all scavengery. This arrangement temporarily avoided war between the then great powers of Europe. Today, the Soviet Union is dead, and a China, red in name only, is the emerged upper contender for global parity, if not dominance. China's economic graph tells a rising tale. But seen in totality with other Asian powers in the make, and the entrenching Asian middle class, the talk of the Asian century, meaning the end of five centuries of White Euro-centrist global dominance, is more than a hot air pitch. And thus the talk of a Thucydides trap.

It is important run Robert Godec through this prism.

There is the Chinese global initiative called the Belt and Road Initiative (or OBOR in some sectors),

The Belt and Road Initiative - A road map to THE FUTURE

The Belt and Road Initiative refers to the Silk Road Economic Belt and 21st Century Maritime Silk Road, a significant development strategy launched by the Chinese government with the intention of promoting economic co-operation among countries along the proposed Belt and Road routes. The Initiative has been designed to enhance the orderly free-flow of economic factors and the efficient allocation of resources. It is also intended to further market integration and create a regional economic co-operation framework of benefit to all.

and the Obama administration swore to derail it, seeing in it, a death knell of American global dominance, the Dragon's Trojan.

A look at the concept of that OBOR thing, reveals Kenya, in Africa, is a strategic link.
How then can Kenya be priced out of the Dragon's paw!?

There are not that many options. The rest are variations, but the only one is this: the peoples will must be thwarted. For the people, left to their own purposes, will surely come to their interests. Left to vote freely, they will not always be stupid as elitist theory may have it. Which was more stupid: Al-Sisi's elite backed coup or the Egyptian peoples majority vote for Muslim Brother Man, Mohammed Morsi!?

Which is more stupid: Uhuru Kenyatta's winner takes all legitimacy after the 34% turn-out, or Raila Odinga's Kalongolongo ceremony declaring himself the peoples president!? It isn't an easy call that, but it is safe to conclude Robert Godec is burning the midnight oil, toiling devious to work woe upon the popular will of the Kenyan people. Like all imperial footsoldiers, he is pure poison.

But that is an open secret.

less open are the anxieties of MONOPOLY CAPITAL feeling the heat of challenge. The recently concluded annual DAVOS BASH, drove an uncomfortable point home. BRI was making a lot of sense to a lot of people traditionally anti-China. It was a bit like when most of pro-US Europe decided against American wishes, it was better to INVEST good will in the China launched Asian Industrial and Infrastructure bank.

Why America Doesn’t Welcome China’s New Infrastructure Bank

By Joseph E. Stiglitz


Indeed, that news was made last month, when the United Kingdom, Germany, France, and Italy joined more than 30 other countries as founding members of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank.

The $50 billion AIIB, launched by China, will help meet Asia’s enormous infrastructure needs, which are well beyond the capacity of today’s institutional arrangements to finance.

But, puzzlingly, wealthy European countries’ decision to join provoked the ire of American officials. Indeed, one unnamed American source accused the U.K. of “constant accommodation” of China. Covertly, the United States put pressure on countries around the world to stay away.

And O Boy, I love to do this on the LUO PIVOT posts these days

By JANE PERLEZDEC. 4, 2015

President Xi Jinping of China spoke in Beijing in November 2014 during a visit by President Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry. China, with its vast wealth and resources, now rivals the United States at the global economic table.

BEIJING — As top leaders met at a lush Bali resort in October 2013, President Xi Jinping of China described his vision for a new multinational, multibillion-dollar bank to finance roads, rails and power grids across Asia. Under Chinese stewardship, the bank would tackle the slow development in poor countries that was holding the region back from becoming the wealth center of the world.

Afterward, the United States secretary of state, John Kerry, caught up with Mr. Xi in the corridor. “That’s a great idea,” Mr. Kerry said of the bank, according to Chinese and American aides briefed on the encounter.

The enthusiasm didn’t last long, as the Obama administration began a rear-guard battle to minimize the bank’s influence.

My brother Barrack Obama!
Sheeeet! wrong side of history! I remember the horrid laugh of his badgal Hilary after they fixed Gaddafi!

I need to do a domestic post!

[jakaswanga]

Feb 16, 2018 13:07:59 GMT 3 Onyango Oloo said:

A Digital Essay by Onyango Oloo in Durban
In his recent blog piece that I just saw on Twitter,

Okoth Osewe, the Secretary General of the Stockholm-based Kenyan Red Alliance ponders why Western envoys are meddling in internal Kenyan politics. I support his views 167% especially when he reaches back historically to make the colonial connections which later on segued to the contemporary neo-colonial arrangements ...

I traced it now! Stockholm! That is where the other presidential candidate Wafula Chebukati igored, Red Martin Ngatia, fulminated from! God-amn Olof Palme!

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FOOTNOTE: WHAT OPTIONS MUIGAI, LIKE FATHER LIKE SON?

A semi-colonial economy under the straight-jacket of foreign exploitation, need must be authoritarian....

Because the exploited, be they workers or jobless, or whatever their patriotic station, are ever looking for an opportunity to publicise their disenfranchisement, cand call for justice. This means rebellion is ever in the air. And rebellion is a statement of liberation. The bill of rights thus must be curbed, that the system jolt on.

The declining free space in Kenya has got nothing to do with the personality of Uhuru Kenyatta, it is just a class complex, a limitation of consciousness. It is like the rampant corruption in governments all over the place, all over the globe, aint nothing to do with colour nor race, be you Jacob Zuma, Eduardo dos Santos, Petro Poroshenko, Bibi Netanyahu, Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin, China's red princelings, Tony Blair or Joseph Kabila. Forget Latin America. She is the continental mother of governmental corruption!

Trust Jukwaa to have been here long ago. I for one remember arguing Cabral's class thesis with one, the notorious Onyango Oloo.

May 25, 2013 at 2:16pm

In classical terms then, this [COMPRADOR] is the auxiliary class, an intermediary instrument necessary for the agenda of imperialism to continue in the satellite economies.

They (the comprador) are wedged between the dictates of exploitation demanded by imperial capital investment, and the (freedom and justice pregnant) aspirations of the native working /\ productive class, which is subjugated under this extractive regime.

Under electoral, should we say populist politics then, this ancillary class must pander to the two masters, namely
[1]the true interests of their people which they must betray (or commit class suicide to serve, historically a very far-off shot); and
[2] the program of imperial capital which they must obey and effect (or be replaced by others more reliable and malleable.)

Caught in this historical fix, the local petit bourgeoisie ruler ----let us call them Raila, Kibaki, M7, Kagame, and in our present case Uhuru Kenyatta---- will adopt a public posture of anti-imperialism while, in office, do exactly the bidding of imperialism in policy.

On its part, Imperialism understands the political wit of this rhetorical posturing, and accepts it as a necessary evil. It is a political trick of the local elite to hoodwink their masses. To lull them to sleep with rhetoric. [Oyieyo chami to kudhoi]. Indeed it was a British PR-Buro that coached Mr. Kenyatta on how to exploit the ICC indictment to rally against the West, stoking the flames of Afro-nationalism.

Read more: jukwaa.proboards.com/thread/8440/beloved-kenya-defrauded-futures-options#ixzz57T98wtfl

The result of this stagnant politics, where cynically too, ethnicity is politically radicalised to solidify a support base, is a perpetuation of the crisis which is characteristic of a marginalised economy under imperial domination, or a semi-colonial economy under the straight-jacket of foreign exploitation.

Some will remember a similar UK-Buro, this time the defunct Bell-Portinger, coached the rotten Zuma-Gupta axis in developing a populist narrative of state capture by ? to deflect public anger from the rot at the core of the ruling ANC!

If you ask me, Uhuru's desperado-make-believe ruthless make-over is best explained by Kenya's DEBT PILE.

The extractive regime to HEIGHTEN THE EXPROPRIATION of the Kenyan to meet the DEBT OBLIGATIONS DUE, can not be effected without a suspension of the BILL OF RIGHTS, aka the benevolent dictator!. --another Bell Portinger phrase!

There is a saying which goes, there is no such thing as a free lunch. That, rather than legacy, is the real bee up Muiga's asz, I tell ya. And that is, of course, why all these Western ambassadors at the behest of their homeland commercial banks exposed locally, are giving him political cover. --GO, BENEVOLENT DICTATOR GO! AFRICANS CAN'T HANDLE FREEDOM! THAT 2010 thing is beyond your faculties! Nyando is in Canada!

BORROWING AND DEBT

In 2013, the Jubilee administration inherited a debt of Sh1.7 trillion after a decade of the Kibaki government. Less than 5 years later, that has ballooned by nearly 250 percent to Sh4.4 trillion. This year’s borrowing has been particularly aggressive.

The Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) says that the government is borrowing an average of Sh86 billion per month, the highest level since the bank started listing public debt in 1999, and over Sh30 billion more than the monthly averages of 2015 and 2016.

And between the lines

There has been sharp rises, however, in loans procured from foreign commercial banks and China since the economic rebase in September 2014.

The debt that Kenya owed banks abroad was $6.86 billion (Sh691.42 billion) in September 2017, reflecting a 230.98 per cent jump over $2.07 trillion (Sh208.64 billion) three years ago when the IDA’s concessional credit door started shutting for Nairobi.

Debt contracted from Beijing climbed more than four folds to $4.733 billion (Sh477.04 billion) from $922.30 million (Sh92.96 billion) in the review period three years earlier.

Loans from China largely have concessional and commercial portions. The spike in debt contracted from China underlines the active participation of the East Asia’s powerhouse in Kenya’s infrastructure development-led growth strategy

The loans owed to Commercial banks abroad, and the maturing Eurobond ledger in 2019. That Eurobond ledger went to –-tenderpreneurial and devolution blues--- dust, or, by other words like the then Neurozone Chair of Eurogroup (Dijsselbloem) scoffed at Southern European countries pinned under the boot of austerity, blown on babes and booze.

Powerful debtors calling, de-ja-vu as farce or else, the comprador chieftain therefore has to --do his dog errand part-- wield the AKIDA whip more ferocious!

Uhuru ruthlessness in silencing critics a replica of Jomo’s style

Sunday February 18 2018 By OSCAR OBONYO

When the Supreme Court voided last year’s presidential poll of August 8, a furious President Uhuru Kenyatta pointedly stated “we shall revisit", as his key ally and Vice Chairman of his Jubilee Party, Mr David Murathe, affirmed that Kenya needed a “benevolent dictator” for a President.
Indeed actions by government agents over the last couple of days seem to reflect this stance.
Following last month’s “swearing-in” of Mr Kenyatta’s main political rival Mr Raila Odinga as the "People’s President" at Nairobi’s Uhuru Park, security agents have moved with speed never witnessed in recent times in cracking down on the opposition.
They have stormed houses of politicians and lawyers sympathetic to the Opposition, arrested and prosecuted them, held others incommunicado and deported the self-styled General of National Resistance Movement (NRM) Miguna Miguna to Canada for administering the oath to Mr Odinga.

PASSPORTS

Other Nasa politicians have had their passports revoked, guns repossessed, bodyguards and official cars withdrawn and literally terrorised, forcing them to seek anticipatory bail and even spend nights cowering in Parliament buildings for fear of arrest.
During these operations, there was a media shutdown of main television stations, with government agents disregarding the Constitution and court orders.

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The trend prompted Chief Justice David Maraga’s stern warning that compliance with court orders was not an option for any individual or institution.
Many would have expected Mr Kenyatta to be more magnanimous and reconciliatory during his second and final term by reaching out to his political foes with a view to uniting the country.
Instead Mr Kenyatta has taken a hardline stand.

JOMO AND JARAMOGI

Mr Kenyatta’s hard tackle is a replica of how his father and founding President of Kenya, Jomo Kenyatta, handled his Vice President Jaramogi Oginga Odinga when the two fell out in 1967.
During that period, the senior Kenyatta placed Jaramogi under house arrest and vanquished him politically by hounding him and his allies out of Parliament and banning his Kenya People’s Union outfit altogether in 1969.

The younger Kenyatta’s tough stance has gotten some pundits pondering whether the Jomo in Uhuru has woken up – or rather whether the President has opted to adopt his father’s ruthless ways of dealing with opponents.

In a recent interview with one of the local TV stations, Mr Odinga himself acknowledged that the Kenyatta administration may be testing the waters and that he was the eventual target of the ongoing crack down.
“I am very much aware and very ready for them,” the former Premier vowed.

NATIONAL ASSEMBLY

This is probably Mr Odinga’s lowest political moment over the last two decades.
He is – rightly or wrongly – out of power yet again, his Nasa coalition is seriously outnumbered in both houses of Parliament, his lieutenants are being pursued by the security agents and he is separately expected to exit from elective politics in the next four years amid intense succession battles in Nasa and his Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) outfit.
Political commentator Mutahi Ngunyi opines that Jubilee may well have embraced Sun Tzu’s tactics in handling Mr Odinga and Nasa.
The political scientist observes that when one inflicts an injury on an opponent, one must fix him completely:
“It is like a cobra snake and if you do not unleash a fatal blow, it will hit back in a more venomous way.”

UHURU RESOLUTE

The import of Ngunyi’s sentiments is that Mr Kenyatta considers his political rivals to be in a most weakened position this time around.
And because this is his second and last term in office, Ngunyi says the President is more determined to execute his plot since he has nothing to lose.
Independent investigations by Sunday Nation reveal that indeed Mr Kenyatta is destined to be a much more ruthless president in this second phase of his leadership.
According to one source who spoke to us on condition of anonymity, Kenyans are going to witness a firmer and more resolute President.

“Unlike previously when he has sought explanations as to why some things did not happen as envisaged, the President is now demanding action and not excuses for his directives,” our source divulged.
A look at the reorganised team of the President’s handlers and advisors indeed confirms this narrative.
Following his re-election, Mr Kenyatta has changed a number of aides at both State House and Harambee House Office, bringing in political advisors with relevant experience and handlers with military and public administration background.

STATE APPOINTEES

At State House for instance, his diary is now being handled by former Administration Police Commandant Kinuthia Mbugua, who served as Nakuru County Governor until last year.
Mbugua is said to be more forceful than his civilian predecessor, Lawrence Lenayapa.
The Sunday Nation has also learnt that Deputy Head of Public Service Wanyama Musiambo has taken charge of administrative engagements at Harambee House, with his boss Joseph Kinyua taking the backseat.
The former Rift Valley Regional Coordinator is said to be a firmer executor of presidential directives as compared to career civil servant, Mr Kinyua.
And together with his “so-called super Cabinet Secretary, Dr Fred Matiang’i, whom he has appointed to the all-important Interior docket, all signs are clear that the President has assembled a no-nonsense team he trusts can deliver to his satisfaction.

NATIONAL AGENDA

On the Judiciary front, Mr Kenyatta has equally tightened the loose ends following the exit of Prof Githu Muigai as Attorney General.
Reacting to the ongoing crack down, Mr Murathe says the President has a development agenda to execute, and accordingly seeks a peaceful and stable environment to rollout the same:
“There has to be stability in the country for us to execute the four plan development and the President cannot be expected to sit back and see the country degenerate.”
Apparently, part of Mr Murathe and other Jubilee officials’ beef with Nasa is their perceived disrespect for the President.

Former political detainee Koigi wa Wamwere attributes Mr Kenyatta’s apparent change of tack to the “democracy versus dictatorship” discourse that emerged lately among the President’s supporters.
“While dictatorship has succeeded, although minimally, in some places including Singapore and closer home in Rwanda, it greatly stifles democracy and the people’s freedoms.
"In the worst scenarios, it degenerates into individuals framing innocent people and sending them to exile,” the former Subukia MP regrets.

NASA RESISTANCE

The Nasa steering committee co-chairman, Johnson Muthama, separately believes Jubilee’s hard tackle will backfire as “it will only give us the excuse and much required motivation to fight back”.
Muthama, whose passport has been revoked by the Immigration department, says this is a terrain too familiar to the Opposition.
“All the constitutional gains made in this country, including the Bill of Rights and various freedoms now enjoyed by Kenyans, have not come easy. They have been achieved through demonstrations and battles with the State,” Muthama says.
On the flipside, the President’s newfound tough image is inconsistent.

CABINET

While he has come down heavy on the Opposition, he has exhibited a softer side on individuals allied to his government and Jubilee Party.
Although in private he has reportedly expressed displeasure over the performance of some of his Cabinet Secretaries and other senior government officials, he has sacked none.
Instead, the President chose to give them a soft landing as ambassadors.
This is in contrast to his dealings in his first term, where he directed CSs mentioned in corruption cases to step aside.
And even in instances where some, like Charity Ngilu were exonerated, he did not reinstate them.

When was the last time Muigai took on corruption!?

The legacy was lost before he even took the first oath!

Let me not cheat you! I can live with my benevolent dictator, but you gonna fak me with some Deng Hsiao Ping wirtschaftswunder figures, 25% economic growth per annum. Otherwise you just go fak yourself with your benevolence!

I am game.

That Deng Hsiao Ping figure is considered a wild fairy tale by cutting-edge faculties of economies outside Asia.

But I am still game!

[wanyee]

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